Every year, around the same time in spring, we ask the same question: Are students making excuses, or are they burnt out?  Students get about halfway through the semester before it starts to become...

A senior sits in their class with only one week of school left with no motivation, and junior starts complaining about how they don't want to do any work and call it “juniorits.” The seniors can only...

A senior at MCHS sits in her car before returning to class after spending her lunch off campus. Motivation is as low as ever as all the senior’s last year of high school comes to an end. As final assessments,...

Assignment after assignment piles up for seniors. Math, science, English, history, and they just keep coming. Though this is no different than any other year. But this year, as a senior they have a new...